AT a splendid display these make when well grown ! yet many have the idea that they 
i^HKjyZy are a dirty class of plants, and always infested with fly, but when they are so, it is nearly 
always because they have been starved and couflned in an unfavourable, dry atmosphere, 
and often placed next to some other infectetl plant. When seedlings or young plants are potted, place 
in a close frame for three or four days until they recover, and afterwards expose during the months 
of September and October to all favourable weather, and even during the night with as cold a tem- 
perature M possible, just excluding the frost, and, as soon as the pots are filled with roots, supply 
with liquid manure, and at all times well surround with a moist, airy atmosphere. This family of 
plants should be the king of the greenhouse all through the spring, for really we know of no plant so 
easily grown as the Cineraria, and very seldom we find it necessary to fumigate until just before they 
are coming into flower. (ITor other particulars, see Seed List.) ^ 
First Prize at Royal Botanic Society’s Show, Regent’s Park, 
Mr. JouN Hon, Chapel Bar, Nottingham, 17M Auyust, l«y7. 
1 have seen a gold medal given at one of the largest shows this season fqr a far loss 
effective group of plants than your lovely group of Vannas at Sevenoaks the other day when 
judging at Knowle I’ark. 
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